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Smile Please, Peer Gallery, exhibition review: ‘a refreshing take on modern urban life’

Simon English’s new solo show features never-before-seen sculptures made from objects picked up around London

Author: Sarah Birch

Smile Please, Peer Gallery, exhibition review: ‘a refreshing take on modern urban life’

Hackney women awarded MBEs in Queen’s birthday honours

Art gallery director Ingrid Swenson and construction industry giant Kath Moore both receive gongs

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney women awarded MBEs in Queen’s birthday honours

Residents of historic Chocolate Studios up in arms over hotel plans

Businesses housed in former sweet factory also ‘anxious about the future’ amid fears over loss of light

Author: Hackney Citizen

Residents of historic Chocolate Studios up in arms over hotel plans

The World was an Avocado: Hoxton children produce audio story anthology with Penguin and Ministry of Stories

The 35-strong team of youngsters each penned a tale, all available on a CD released this week – listen to the first 10 now

Author: Andrew Barnes

Some of the young authors pose with their freshly minted CDs at the Red Gallery launch event. Photograph: Penguin Random Hous

Anthology Hoxton Press: City living from new heights in Hackney with these one, two and three bedroom homes

Make Hoxton Press your new home in one of these sought after apartments overlooking Shoreditch Park, and enjoy all the area has to offer

Author: Hackney Citizen

Anthology Hoxton Press: City living from new heights in Hackney with these one, two and three bedroom homes

Open Geffrye: Museum of the Home pauses closure for Chelsea Fringe and cheese events

While the museum itself remains closed, Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye and The London Cheese Project both touch down in the front gardens next month

Author: Andrew Barnes

Garden variety: events of both a horticultural and gastronomical nature will be held at the immaculate Geffrye gardens in May

Britannia Leisure Centre: Campaigners accuse council of ‘painting rosy picture’ after new images unveiled

Town Hall reveals details of new secondary school

Author: Hackney Citizen

Britannia Leisure Centre: Campaigners accuse council of ‘painting rosy picture’ after new images unveiled

Holborn Studios granted reprieve as High Court rules Hackney Council decision ‘unlawful’

Hoxton venue hails ‘turning point’ in three-year battle against demolition plans

Author: Hackney Citizen

A Hoxton Childhood and The Years After by A.S. Jasper, book review: it’s a hard Hox life

A.S. Jasper was better known as Stan in early twentieth-century Hoxton, where he struggled through a hungry upbringing. Our review looks at his two volumes of “first-person insight into a time when the welfare state was but a twinkle in the labour movement’s eye…”

Author: Hackney Citizen

A.S. Jasper, who spent his childhood in "Dickensian" poverty in Hoxton. Image: Spitalfields Life Books

Smile Please, Peer Gallery, exhibition review: ‘a refreshing take on modern urban life’

Hackney women awarded MBEs in Queen’s birthday honours

Residents of historic Chocolate Studios up in arms over hotel plans

The World was an Avocado: Hoxton children produce audio story anthology with Penguin and Ministry of Stories

Anthology Hoxton Press: City living from new heights in Hackney with these one, two and three bedroom homes

Open Geffrye: Museum of the Home pauses closure for Chelsea Fringe and cheese events

Britannia Leisure Centre: Campaigners accuse council of ‘painting rosy picture’ after new images unveiled

Holborn Studios granted reprieve as High Court rules Hackney Council decision ‘unlawful’

A Hoxton Childhood and The Years After by A.S. Jasper, book review: it’s a hard Hox life

Ministry of Stories volunteers bring schoolchildren’s visions to life in 17 new Penguin picture books

Idris Elba open casting in Haggerston ‘shut down’ after huge crowds turn up

Brain injury survivors to run pop-up art shop in Hoxton